Sir Vernon Kell founded the UK's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, MI5, in 1909 and the Director for 31 years, making it the longest tenure of any head of a British government ...

Headed at its beginning by Vernon Kell — one of Britain’s longest-serving civil servants, if not the longest-serving ever — MI5 from the start exercised its authority to initiate ...

In Lyle’s entertaining if uneven sequel to 2017’s The Irregular, it’s 1910 and the new British Secret Service is up and running with Vernon Kell heading domestic operations and Wiggins, a ...

Established in 1909 by Captain Vernon Kell and Captain Mansfield Cumming as the Secret Service Bureau, the agency was originally intended to target German intelligence.

Reporting to the Home Office, it was formed in 1909 under British army captain Vernon Kell to identify and counteract German spies in the country, according to the Britannica. What does MI6 do?

A century ago, in 1915, the 27-year-old joined British counter-intelligence – then called MO5 – under Sir Vernon Kell, a half-Polish veteran of the Boxer Rebellion, one of whose tasks was to ...

In 1909, Holmes recommends Wiggins, who was the leader of the Baker Street Irregulars as a boy and is now scratching out a living as a debt-collector, to Vernon Kell, the head of a ...

A memo in 1928 by John Davidson, the Conservative Party chairman, to Sir Vernon Kell, the head of MI5, asks him to halt the shadowing of Maundy-Gregory.

Charlotte Mary Kell, artist, poet and teacher: born Rockbourne, Hampshire 3 October 1944; ... John, a lawyer, and her grandfather General Sir Vernon Kell, the founder of MI5.